TWO men have been jailed for a total of ten years for the manslaughter of Coleshill dad Dean Brayson.

Mr Brayson was attacked twice – once in the car park of The Bell pub in Coleshill and again in a lay-by – last November. He was taken to hospital but died as a result of the head injuries he sustained.

Adam Bache, 34, and James Macdonald, 29, from Birmingham were charged with his murder but they both denied the charge.

Yesterday, on the seventh day of their trial at Warwick Crown Court, both pleaded guilty a lesser charge of manslaughter, and causing actual bodily harm to two other two men.

Bache was sentenced to four and a half years in prison while Macdonald got five and a half years custody. They will have to serve at least half their sentence before they are released on licence.

Mr Brayson, 29, had a six-year-old daughter. During the hunt for his killers family described him as “loving, kind, caring, charming and funny”.

Speaking after his killers were jailed, Det Chief Insp James Essex, from Warwickshire Police, who led the investigation, said: “Dean Brayson died as a result of a very nasty attack and I am satisfied that at last someone has taken responsibility for what happened.

“This has been a very difficult year for Mr Brayson’s family, who have lost a much-loved son and father, and my sympathies go to them at this time.

" I hope that today’s result brings some closure for them and that they can begin to rebuild their lives.”

A spokesman for Mr Brayson’s family said: “He was a very loyal person and during his short life touched so many lives, from people he went to school with at Coleshill Heath and later Whitesmoor schools to people he worked with in his various jobs.